No Borders and Binaries

I mentioned earlier that the computer-generated 55-second video footage of giant fireworks on film at the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics was pure simulacrum–with no relation to ‘reality.’ It turns out that there was more “staging” than meets the eye at the 2008 Beijing games.

First, a 9-year old lip-synced the song “Ode [...]

Mumbai: Almost 150 years after the British enacted a law in India criminalising homosexuality, a rainbow coalition of lesbian, gay and transgender groups in the city came together on Saturday asking the British government to apologise for Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code.
“We invoke the Father of our Nation’s spirit and call on them [...]

This new video by Taylor Oakley is great political satire on gay marriages. He pretty much takes all the redundant arguments against same-sex marriage and shows their lunacy. A must-watch.

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Over the weekend, I was reading some pro-migrant news at a Catholic site that I had stumbled on via Google News Alert service. And on the sidebar, the very site was spewing hatred about same-sex marriage in California. The churches and religious ‘right’ who first established ’sanctuary’ and are very pro-migrant, are also the ones [...]

I take great inspiration from this quote by Jennifer Beals at an NAACP event a few years ago:
“It has been said, ‘History is written by the victors.’ I take this to mean we can make ourselves victorious by writing, and then rewriting our own stories. In a country and culture so dominated by media, by [...]

It still blows my mind that we have to “argue” about basic fundamental human rights.
I thought the nation decided close to 50 years ago that “separate but equal” is not equal. How can the idiot judges on the California Supreme Court sit there like pompous asses and state “isn’t domestic partnership and marriage the same [...]

A pilot has been shot for a TV series starring queer people of color, quite unprecedented in diversity. It is being pitched as Melrose Place + L Word + 227. Nisha Ganatra plays a young woman coming out. Check it out, especially if you know anyone in the TV biz, or if [...]

I have been itching to write something but seriously, nowadays whatever I want to say just sounds repetitive in my head or my mind is so cluttered that I want to write about a million different things that are loosely connected to one another (I hope).
Anyway, I found this article in the Times of India. [...]

She sat there almost tranquilized fearing the consequences of her forthcoming actions, the path she had chosen to embark on. No doubt it was the road less traveled, it was harsh, an embattled life full of challenges, a thorny ride with no sure prospects of bearing any economical fruit.
Blink. Deep breath.
She opened her eyes and [...]

Alright, this is officially my first L Word post and many more may come but I will make them socially and politically relevant for the most part.
What do I think about the L Word? I actually had a distaste for it for the first 3 seasons; I did not even watch the first two until [...]